Improvement in portable hot-air and vapor baths combined



G. GORDON. Portable Hot-Air and Vapor-Bath Combined.

Patented Nov. 6,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

. GERALD GORDON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

' IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE HOT-AIR AND VAPOR BATHS COMBINED.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 196,890, dated November 6, 1877; application filed October 18, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALD GORDON, of

Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have in-j vented a new and useful Portable HOt-Air or Turkish Bath and Vapor-Bath Combined, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to an apparatus for administering what are known as vapor-baths 'small alcohol-lamp within a stand, that supports either a vap orgenerator or a simple heatdeflector, and a cloak Or cape of some woven fabric rendered vapor-proof, for enveloping all of the patients body except the head.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of my lamp or generator adapted for a vapor-bath. Fig. 2 is a similar section of the generator adapted for a dryheat or Turkish bath. Fig. 3 represents my vapor-deflector. Fig. 4 represents my cloak or cape. Fig. 5 represents the bath in use, the patients position'being indicated by'dotted lines.

A represents a stand or tripod, having a base, c, to receive a small alcohol lamp or burner, B, and an elevated ring, a', for .support either of pan C, to hold either simple or medicated Water, or of a wire-gauze screen, D, in the form of an inverted bowl.

In conjunction with the vapor-pan C, I employ a disk, E, in form of an inverted saucer, and having three legs, F, which, being inserted in the pan C, cause the disk to occupy a plane slightly elevated above the pans mouth c, as shown in Fig.l 1. I

The disk E acts as a deflector, which directs to every side the currents of steam that ascend from the pan C.

With a similar object there is secured to the upper part of the wire-gauze screen D a disk, G, whose office is to scatter the heated column of gas which ascends from the lamp B when the apparatus is being used in the dry or Turkish-bath form.

Except a common cane-bottom chair and a foot-bath tub, such as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, the only remaining instrumentality necessary is a cloak or cape, K, made of any description of woven fabric, and coated with a mixture of linseed-oil and pulverized asbestus. This cloak is made of suitable shape and dimensions to envelop the neck and body of the patient, while its skirt rests upon the floor, in the manner shown in Fig. 5.

The apparatus is operated as follows: The lamp B being lighted and placed within the stand A, and the latter supplied with either the pan C, holding simple or medicated water, and

supplied with deflector E for a vapor-bath, or

with the screen D G for a hot-air or Turkish bath.

an ordinary cane-seated chair is placed over the generator, and a common foot-tub supplied with warm water is placed in front of the chair. The patient, being now seated with his feet in the tub, is completely enveloped, from his neck down, in the water-proof cloak K, as indicated in Fig. 5. Having remained in the bath a suitable time-usually about twenty minutes-his person should be quickly cleansed with a sponge dipped in warm water. This having been effected, the cloak is again closed, and, after a free perspiration, hisl person isl sponged of with tepid water, and nally rubbed perfectly dry.

While reserving the right to combine with my portable generator any description of dexible water-proof and innocuous cloak, my preferred manufacture of cloak is one composed of some woven fabric coated with linseed-oil and asbestus, as above stated, because such a cloak is practically indestructible, being both fire and'l water proof, is entirely free from deleterious ingredients, and, withal, sufficiently flexible to be folded in small compass vwhen desired.

I'claim as new and of my invention- 1. The vapor-bath generator consisting of stand A, lamp B, pan C, and deflector E F.

2. Awater-proof or impervious cloak or cape, K, for use in medicated or vapor bathing, composed Of a woven fabric coated with a mixture of linseed-oil and powdered asbestus.

` p In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

GERALD' GORDON.

Attest:

` GEO. H. KNIGHT,

L. H. BOND. 

